Posted on 04/30/2013 5:52:13 AM PDT by bestintxas
"We’ve had probably five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican senators standing and looking at Rand and Mike and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs. I mean really upset. And they said, ‘Look, why did you do this? As a result of this I go home and constituents are yelling at me that I gotta stand on principal.” I’m really not making that up. I don’t even bother to argue with them… But, here was their argument. They said, ‘Before you did this the politics on this were all great. The Dems were the bad guys. The Republicans were the good guys. Now we all look like a bunch of squishes.’ Well there is an alternative. You could all just not be a bunch of squishes.”
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You other guys go get one for youself.
Every time I see him I get mad thinking of all those wasted years we had Kay Bailey Hutchison occupying that Senate seat.
People of principle really irritate them.
The threat of that filibuster (even though it never happened), in addition to the bombing in Boston, is what killed the latest gun control scheme. And we don’t even have to ask who the republicans were who were upset:
McCain, Graham, Murkowski, Collins, probably Johannes, Chambliss and Isaakson, Corker and Alexander, Enzi, Cochrane and Kirk and maybe even Portman.
They didn’t like being forced to have to vote as a conservative. They like it when there are lots of moderates to hide behind while the legislation still gets passed. Well this time, they couldn’t hide and the legislation wasn’t passed. And they’re pissed.
Now you did it Ted,
you are on Morning Joe’s bad boy list.
He was warning you (Ted) to stop causing trouble and stop getting your fellow Senators upset this morning. He warned you Ted.
He made Mika frown too.
If Ted really is responsible for getting the others to vote no in the Senate and kill that bill then that is a big accomplishment.
let’s put Cruz on the VP ticket.
and get the National Born citizenship answered once and for all
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Who'd a thunk that the electorate may have wanted something like that...... Apparently those Senators never had that thought cross their mind.
Ted just shaking the Tree of Liberty, RINO’s hate that.
Cruz makes you proud to have voted for him!
Consolation on “wasted years with KBH”, there was no Cruz for an alternate, we were just escaped generations of Yeller Dog Dems and actually was night and day better than them. As sentiment grew for more conservatism, like Tea Party, KBH dimmed in comparison, but she was still way better than any YDD.
Hmmmm that would be interesting ...
But we need him in the senate, he’s doing a h3lluva job keeping the gungrabbers at bay.
I hope Alaska can send Sarah Palin to the Senate if she deigns to run. She’d be great in the Senate.
When pressed for a response, Senator Cruz asked "Who/what is Morning Joe? Is that a the name of a donut shop nearby?"
Natural born.
I’d prefer him in the presidential slot.
You tell me. Is he an American citizen? Check.
He was born in Canada, they always scream. Then is a Canadian citizen? No. Check.
Ok. His mother was American her whole life (natural born), native of Delaware. She had a job in Canada when Ted was born. Again, what difference does that make?
According to Ted Cruz, who’s a constitutional expert, there are two ways to be a citizen. You either are a citizen from birth, or else you become a citizen later through the immigration and naturalization process.
The only argument I’ve ever wavered on is whether it takes two parents who are citizens to be a natural born citizen. The soil where the mother drops the child makes no sense as being the determinative factor. Ted believes the mother’s citizenship is the determining factor.
I ask you and all, if Ted’s mom had been a native born Texan, and while on a trip to Mexico Ted had been born, would Ted be a man without a country? A Mexican? What?
He would be an American, natural born as opposed to naturalized.
There is so much misinformation on this...
It makes ME want to SCREAM.
Ginsburg thinks her grandson - born in France to two US citizens- is a NBC.
And the fact that America ACCEPTS “anchor babies” as citizens - illegal entrant mom drops baby on our soil, deliberately, then whole extended family gets to come because the baby is a “citizen of America”, is LEGALLY wrong.
And it confuses the issue, and is a lot of what’s wrong with people’s mixed-up thinking on the issue of natural born vs naturalized.
But just because we illicitly (and stupidly) recognize anchor babies does not mean that if a baby is born abroad to an American, they’re not natural born. If the anchor baby thing were extended out, they would be a citizen of whatever country they were dropped in, or, if that country didn’t recognize that, they would not be American at all, but would be “a man without a country”, and would have to be naturalized later. I’m saying, if the anchor baby reasoning were carried out to include Americans like Ted, born abroad...
But it doesn’t work. You can see it doesn’t work. Here’s a family living at 123 America Lane and all are citizens. Mom crosses a border on a trip and her baby decides to come. We are supposed to believe he or she has to now worry, oh dear, how am I going to attain status? I’m like an alien in my own land...
NO!
The whole problem with that argument is that this huffed-up Senator stated (I’m paraphrasing), “The Dems are bad and the Reps are good.”
On what EFFING planet is that Senator living? Is he out visiting the American flag on Mars with Sheila Jackson-Lee? The Dems are kicking the Reps butts because they are not afraid to stand up for the crazy, bat-shit, peanut-festival-outhouse ideas they proclaim!
The Reps ARE squishy and that is why they keep losing! DUH!
Give ‘em HELL, Ted! Give ‘em HELL!
We have Chambliss and Isakson two of the biggest RINO’s ever to grace the Senate. They can’t wait to co-sponsor and vote for every POS bill the Dems think up.
Looking for our own Cruz here in GA with Chambliss retiring. I pray that Isakson sees the light, too, when his term is up. Chambliss is the more conservative of the two.
I agree that it was probably McCain et al, but I don’t buy the line that they had to go home and listen to their constituents. When did any of that gang ever do that?
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